Wien (OTS) – Dem “Scheiß Internet”, in das sich junge Menschen “verkriechen”, hat ORF-Programmdirektor Wolfgang Lorenz im Herbst des Jahres 2008 den Kampf erklärt. Wenn das nicht Grund genug ist, nach dem Visionär einen Preis zu benennen, was dann? Das Wiener KünstlerInnen-Kollektiv monochrom hat deshalb den “Wolfgang Lorenz Gedenkpreis für internetfreie Minuten” gestiftet und verleiht … Read more
In the range of his genius, Freeman Dyson is heir to Einstein—a visionary who has reshaped thinking in fields from math to astrophysics to medicine, and who has conceived nuclear-propelled spaceships designed to transport human colonists to distant planets. And yet on the matter of global warming he is, as an outspoken skeptic, dead wrong: … Read more
Schizophrenia has long been blamed on bad genes or even bad parents. Wrong, says a growing group of psychiatrists. The real culprit, they claim, is a virus that lives entwined in every person’s DNA. […] Schizophrenia is usually diagnosed between the ages of 15 and 25, but the person who becomes schizophrenic is sometimes recalled … Read more